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1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 min. 37 sec.) ; 276429664 bytes |
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The Apple Corporation's dubious work practices, putting lives at risk. Apple is the most valuable brand on the planet, making products that consumers love to buy. But how does this company treat its workers, when the world isn't looking?The BBC's Panorama program goes undercover inside the factory in China that makes the big-selling Apple iPhone 6. There we see the price paid by Chinese workers on the production line.Apple has made a series of promises that are supposed to protect the workers in factories that supply products for the company. Those promises are comprehensive and involve guarantees about working conditions, even detailing minimum standards of accommodation for workers who have travelled hundreds of miles to work in these factories.Under-cover cameras, though, show a very different picture. Employees are treated like they are prisoners. They are threatened and forced to sign work sheets that show them agreeing to long hours of overtime. Many fall asleep at the end of long shifts, making the work environment dangerous for themselves and others.But it isn't just the factories that turn out the products that create questionable conditions for health and safety.Reporter Richard Bilton goes to Indonesia to see the abysmal conditions of miners and their children working to gather tin used in electronic products. Landslides in the open cut mines are frequent and often lethal. Apple says it doesn't knowingly buy tin from illegal miners, but the people who make their living mining and smelting tin tell a quite different story.Is this powerful company making billions of dollars each year really doing all it can to protect the people who make its products and the materials that go into them? Or is their promise of being a good global corporate citizen a sham? |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2015-03-02 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Apple Computer, Inc.
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Employees -- Social conditions.
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Hours of labor -- Health aspects.
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Work environment -- Psychological aspects.
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Employees -- Death.
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Employees -- Job stress.
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China.
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Indonesia.
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Streaming video
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O'Brien, Kerry, host
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Bilton, Richard, reporter
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Bateman, Rebecca, contributor
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Budi, Ratno, contributor
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Murod, Johan, contributor
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Nader, Ralph, contributor
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Qiang, Li, contributor
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White, Heather, contributor
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Yunhe, Zhu, contributor
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Zengqiang, Shi, contributor
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